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[–] aro_plane@alien.top 2 points 2 years ago

Poland at 31 is criminal. With our current form we should be way lower.

[–] johnwickyeah1@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

and now Malaysia are at 130. fucking love my country ❤🇲🇾

[–] Ouioui29@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Portugal won every single Euro Qualifier game, and they drop a level?

[–] EnDubb@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The +/- is only relative to last month's ranking, they dropped a level based on only beating Iceland and Liechtenstein since the last rankings update. Netherlands got more points for beating Ireland and Gibraltar.

[–] Jelmerdts@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

All these people who dont know how rankings work. Smh

WhY iS bElGiUm So HiGh?

[–] tightenstwo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Death, taxes, and Belgium in the top 5

[–] beefersutherland1@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

USA sitting at 12 and I'm still not buying it

I think we're overrated by beating up on some of the island nations in CONCACAF. Netherlands handled them with ease for there to be only 6 spots ahead of the US

[–] WR1206@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

We also went toe to toe with England. It’s soccer, results are often mixed and sample size is always small.

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[–] FoldingBuck@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did portugal go down? Literally won every single game this year.

[–] Complex_Race9966@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

They again got the esiest group. Its not hard to beat farmers and blacksmiths from lihtenstein.

[–] MowMyLawn69@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It still surprises me how hard Germany have fallen off over the previous 5 years

[–] RobCoPKC@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The DFB is symbolic of many things that go wrong in Germany, for example in politics. Corrupt, incompetent and detached from the rest of society.

"Die Mannschaft" tells you everything you need to know.

[–] Demonidze@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

for me its Belgium.. the team have no business to be top10 . let alone top4...

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[–] Sander1901@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Taking P6 from Portugal.

Love to see it

[–] King146@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah we deserved to go down since we lost and drew so many games in 2023 lmao

[–] King-Key@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Winning against Lichensteinbourg counts as 0.001 points

[–] lowtime_sport@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fact that Belgium is fourth in front of Croatia, Spain, and Italy proves this ranking is nonsense.

[–] Frodo_max@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

maybe those teams should stop losing games in qualifying, that's really the only way belgium does it

[–] Specialist-Cycle9313@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perfect top 3, but the rest of the list is awful.

[–] ratonbox@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It's not a subjective list, it's just a rating based on the latest results from the teams. It's a mathematical formula, not something to be taken as a definitive ranking.

[–] New_Stage_@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Uruguay went from rank 15 to rank 11 by beating brazil and argentina

[–] ancara_messi@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They're quite easily a top 5 nation right now tbh

[–] SpookyHideaway@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They didn’t look that in Qatar tbf.

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[–] Nordie27@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

What a huge overreaction

[–] unArgentino@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They should be around the top 5 IMO.

[–] J_Bonsai@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

They are 7th on the Elo rankings

[–] SpookyHideaway@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They went out in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup. Their ranking isn’t that crazy.

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[–] Nordie27@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A bit much considering Bielsa has only been there a short period, before that Uruguay hadn't been good in years

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[–] The16BitRobot@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I know there’s an algorithm to determine this and it’s not exactly based on feelings, but damn, I don’t know anyone who’s watched England play recently that would say they’re the third best team in the world.

[–] TjeefGuevarra@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

HERE WE GO BOYS

Brace for the millions of "wHy ArE bElGiUm So HiGh" comments!

[–] ratonbox@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

For people asking why is one team rated higher than others, here's the calculation method:

https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/procedure-men

[–] Frodo_max@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

r/soccer HATES HIM

this TEAM has been TOP 5 for YEARS, despite NOT winning ANYTHING!

Local team from non-country exposes shocking ranking secret! Learn this one weird trick FIFA doesn't want you to know!

click here to find out!

[–] KingKFCc@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Why did Portugal drop? Why isn't Uruguay top 10 Portugal 10/10 Uruguay beat Argentina and Brazil

[–] _Jetto_@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Sad to say but Italy too high rn

[–] randomgamer305@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know FIFA rankings don't mean much, or at least people shouldn't think too much of them. But they're fun to look at for some reason

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[–] leoKantSartre@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Spongy team on top noice

[–] mikguimas@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Portugal: won all games from EU qualifiers, 2goals conceded, CR7 2nd best scorer

FIFA: nah take -1 place

lmao

[–] justk4y@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

San Marino still getting minus points even though they’re doing amazing for a team their calibre now…..

[–] Maguire4BallonDOr@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Argentina #1 just like the amount of penalties awarded out of all teams in the 22 WC

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[–] moaterboater69@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Somebody please tell me the last time Belgium made any waves at any tournament. Theyre trash.

[–] maxime0299@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

They sure win a lot of games for a team that is trash

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[–] MendozaLiner@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

5th place to celebrate 5 World Cups baby!!!

(I wanna die 😭)

[–] McNippy@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

25th LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

[–] Ark1d@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Croatia can win the wc and still remain no. 10 nd Belgium can get knocked by Qatar and become top 2

[–] Dakduif51@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

TOP 6 BABYYYY WOOOHOOOO 🇳🇱🇳🇱👉🦁👈⚽⚽🧡🧡🧡

[–] IcsGrec@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How are Brazil 5th? They are terrible

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[–] MightyMcPerson@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Portuguese speakers are the big losers here it would seem.

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